Hermit by design

Lover of life, books, organic dyes, knitting, observing, solitude, wi-fi

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

I'm writing today about kennings in Old English. Essentially these are two word-metaphors that were used instead of concrete nouns, and they are exquisite. A ship was a 'wave-horse', the sea was a 'whale-road', the mind was a 'thought-chamber', and the sun was a 'sky-candle'.

[Hermit by design @PriscillaStar]

@RykNeethling I would like to know what indigenous sports are? Stick fighting?

[Hermit by design @PriscillaStar]

But you can’t name the murderer because he is a child?

[Sky News @SkyNews]

BREAKING: Merseyside Police have confirmed the names of the three girls who were tragically killed in the Southport attack.

They are six-year-old Bebe King, seven-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe, and nine-year-old Alice Dasilva Aguiar.

https://t.co/DDnilxGYUT

📺 Sky 501

[Hermit by design @PriscillaStar]

@TheoMason1976 @GBNEWS Name the victim, a child, but not the murderer because he is a child. Coool

[Frank Luntz @FrankLuntz]

Fun Fact: Bill Clinton was elected president more than 30 years ago in 1992, and is still younger than both 2024 presidential candidates.

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

Sarah Cooper returns with "How to Boat."

He’s always given her a wealth of material to work with, but Trump’s bit about the shark/electric boat was probably just too hard for her to resist so she took his insanity and turned it into comedy gold...

[Hermit by design @PriscillaStar]

@ContraryMar_i Loved this book. Joe Lycet is a modern day version sometimes

[Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature]

Get yourself a wife who can climb into a ditch to rescue a fully grown wild Swan, then carry it across a busy main road to safety...in heels! 😁😍🐦❤️

[Hermit by design @PriscillaStar]

@kanniekaknie Sympathies. I was in and out in 10 minutes.

[Paul Blinkhorn (@paulblinkhorn.bsky.social) @R1100GSBlueNose]

Still brilliant. It wasn't a comedy, it was a documentary

[Jash Dholani @oldbooksguy]

Hilaire Belloc on the difference between the barbarian and the civilized man:

"The Barbarian hopes that he can have his cake and eat it too. He will consume what civilization has slowly produced after generations of selection and effort, but he will not be at pains to replace such goods, nor indeed has he a comprehension of the virtue that has brought them into being. Discipline seems to him irrational, on which account he is ever marveling that civilization should have offended him with priests and soldiers....the Barbarian...cannot make, he can befog and destroy but he cannot sustain; and of every Barbarian in the decline or peril of every civilization exactly that has been true.

We sit by and watch the barbarian. We tolerate him in the long stretches of peace, we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence; his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creed refreshes us; we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond, and on these faces there are no smiles..."

[Jerry Saltz @jerrysaltz]

This is a very reddish radish of a picture of the King of England by the kitsch crapola artist Jonathan Yeo #JonathanYeo - born in 1970. It is mock romantic monochromatic morose shite because it only has subject matter.
If you like it, that’s fine too of course. Either way, it is a forgettable illustration of a painting.

[Ivo Vegter @IvoVegter]

A group group of nine medical and allied healthcare practitioners’ associations representing more than 25,000 dedicated private and public-sector healthcare workers object to the signing of the NHI Bill.

[Dr Helen Ingram @drhingram]

Happy birthday Søren Kierkegaard. We can feel the flames.

[Hermit by design @PriscillaStar]

@WandileSihlobo Looking forward to the Karoo winter wool festival in June

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

People in 1970 predict what the year 2000 will be like

[Hermit by design @PriscillaStar]

@chrisyelland @BizNewsCOM @DavidNi79646904 @GaopalelweBigG @KelvinKemm PBR reactors is a 30+ year old idea. Has it ever been realised?